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by Kurt_Woloch
Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:32 am
Forum: Games programming
Topic: Next project
Replies: 35
Views: 39467

Re: Next project

I'm somewhat tied between Tetris and Q*Bert. As for Tetris, I think every system deserves a Tetris variant, I don't think it would be terribly difficult to do, and you've already got some great music in place for it. On the other hand, Q*Bert is one of my favorite games. I just hope the Creativision...
by Kurt_Woloch
Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:21 am
Forum: Homebrew software and hardware (excluding games)
Topic: Music with my own player
Replies: 8
Views: 9008

Re: Music with my own player

This is great development! I guess Penny Lane is a bit of a freeform adaption, right? The original song does sound a bit differently...
by Kurt_Woloch
Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:01 pm
Forum: Homebrew software and hardware (excluding games)
Topic: Memory maps, chip documentation
Replies: 41
Views: 53467

Re: Memory maps, chip documentation

OK. Don't know if anybody will read this, but anyway, I wanted to write this somewhere, and I think it fits here best... After already having succeded in programming the Creativision graphics- and soundwise, the question still remains how to poll the joysticks and keyboard on the controllers. I took...
by Kurt_Woloch
Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:56 am
Forum: Homebrew software and hardware (excluding games)
Topic: Memory maps, chip documentation
Replies: 41
Views: 53467

Re: Memory maps, chip documentation

For each byte of VRAM data you want to send, you need to write three times to $3000 ? No, wrong. First you write two bytes to $3001, which acts as a "command" to change the read/write address. Then you write the actual data at $3000. If you want to write consecutive bytes, however, you don't have t...
by Kurt_Woloch
Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:55 pm
Forum: Homebrew software and hardware (excluding games)
Topic: Memory maps, chip documentation
Replies: 41
Views: 53467

Re: Memory maps, chip documentation

MADrigal has collected some newsletters and books which contain small tidbits of the apparent creatiVision memory map. However I found it quite incomplete when I looked at it before. Does anyone have a complete map, or perhaps we could collaborate to put together one? It may be useful both for Basi...
by Kurt_Woloch
Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:24 pm
Forum: Introduce yourself!
Topic: Kurt Woloch
Replies: 4
Views: 8057

Kurt Woloch

Hi everyone! My name is Kurt Woloch. I was born in 1971, and I live in Vienna, Austria. My first computer was a TI-99/4A, then I had a Commodore 64, an Amiga 500 and several PC's. As for video games, I had an Atari 2600, a Nintendo Gameboy and several handheld games, apart from some calculators and ...